Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context
Forecasted
Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context supports social science researchers studying decisions, behavior, and institutions to better understand social and living conditions in the United States.
Funder: Russell Sage Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): October 2026 (Invited proposal) | July 2027 (LOI, projected) | October 2027 (Invited proposal, projected)
Summary: Supports multidisciplinary social science research on decision-making processes, attitudes, behaviors, and institutional practices relevant to social and living conditions in the United States.
Key Information: Full proposals are accepted only by invitation following review of a letter of inquiry.
Description
The Russell Sage Foundation’s Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context core program supports research on economic, social, political, and psychological decision-making processes, attitudes, behaviors, and institutional practices. Launched in 2022, it combines the foundation’s longstanding Behavioral Economics program with its Decision Making and Human Behavior in Context initiative. It encourages perspectives from economics, psychology, political science, sociology, law, public policy, and other social sciences.
The program examines decisions in public and private settings, including policing and criminal legal systems, employment, housing, politics, racial and ethnic relations, and immigration. Research should advance understanding of social and living conditions in the United States. Interests include biases and misperceptions, institutional and social influences, motivations and incentives, habits and mental bandwidth, and the role of emotions in consequential decisions.
